D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.
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I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
